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Vapers Digest 19 May

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Switching to HTPs improves health of COPD patients unable to quit smoking ~ Vaping junk science and the gateway effect ~ Damn Straight: Vapers of New Brunswick will be watching Dorothy Shephard ~ Cigarettes must now be regulated differently to vaping – informal traders ~ Leading vaping company outlines commitment to youth smoking prevention ~ Teens Who Vape Would Be Smoking If Vapes Weren’t Invented, Study Suggests ~ FDA Has Sent 103 Warning Letters to Vape Companies This Year ~ Turkey Suffers From Anti-Vape Attitude ~ Lockdown Caused More Smokers ~ In-store vape clinics with ‘smoking cessation coaches’ planned by Edinburgh firm ~ Vaping Policy Targets Minors, Based On Iffy Evidence, And Winds Up Hitting Adults

Switching to HTPs improves health of COPD patients unable to quit smoking

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Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who abstained from smoking or substantially reduced their cigarette consumption by switching to heated tobacco products (HTPs) showed consistent improvements in respiratory symptoms, exercise tolerance, quality of life, and rate of disease exacerbations.

This was the key finding of a groundbreaking study by a team of Italian researchers published in March 2021 in the scientific journal Internal and Emergency Medicine. It is the first-ever study to describe the long-term health effects of HTP use in COPD patients.

Vaping junk science and the gateway effect

Christopher Snowdon, Velvet Glove Iron Fist

Carl Phillips has written the definitive critique of low quality vaping research (available in draft form here). He looks at the most popular studies (as measured by their Google Scholar ranking) and concludes that the whole field is plagued by fatal flaws. Some of the problems are intractable, but researchers could get closer to answering the key questions if they improved their methodology and looked at the issue down the right end of the telescope. Most of the time they can’t be bothered or they deliberately choose sloppy methods to get the answers they want.

Damn Straight: Vapers of New Brunswick will be watching Dorothy Shephard

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With two simple words, New Brunswick Minister of Health Dorothy Shephard demonstrated a profound lack of empathy and of interest in the health and wellbeing of the smokers and vapers of her province. And, was just plain mean.

When asked if a ban on flavoured vapour products was in the cards, Ms. Shephard responded: “Damn straight.”

Here’s what she does not realize.

Cigarettes must now be regulated differently to vaping – informal traders

Lyse Comins, The South African

Vaping should be regulated differently from other tobacco products like cigarettes to encourage people to switch to less harmful forms of smoking the South African Informal Traders Alliance (SAITA) said on Monday.

SAITA secretary general Michael Mokgoja, made the call while welcoming the National Department of Health’s stakeholder consultation process to develop an updated Socio-Economic Impact Assessment System (SEIAS) for the draft Control of Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill.

Leading vaping company outlines commitment to youth smoking prevention

Jonathan Ng, John Dunne, Malaya Business Insight

Prevention and discouragement of underage vaping – This was the main message relayed by Jonathan Ng, Global Head of External Affairs of RELX International, during his participation at the recently held Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) Europe conference

During the conference, RELX International underscores its commitment in tackling head on two pressing issues concerning vaping: that of preventing underage access and deterring minors from purchasing vaping products, a responsibility that Ng says the company takes very seriously.

Teens Who Vape Would Be Smoking If Vapes Weren’t Invented, Study Suggests

Alex Norcia, Filter Magazine

A new study suggests that teens who vape would probably be smoking cigarettes instead if vapes had never become available.

The academic article, published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research, set out to determine whether youth who vaped between 2014 and 2018 would, in the absence of e-cigarettes, likely have become smokers. In other words, the social epidemiologists who co-authored the study—Dr. Natasha Sokol, a fellow at Brown University’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, and Dr. Justin Feldman, a fellow at Harvard’s François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights—wanted to question the so-called “gateway” theory: the idea that vaping, for teenagers, is a path toward smoking.

FDA Has Sent 103 Warning Letters to Vape Companies This Year

Jim McDonald, Vaping 360

Since our last update on March 12, the FDA has issued 35 additional warning letters to small vape manufacturers and distributors that have not submitted Premarket Tobacco Applications (PMTAs) for some or all of the products they sell.

 

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TWO from Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

Turkey Suffers From Anti-Vape Attitude

Turkey has opposed tobacco harm reduction and consequently is suffering from a spate of cigarette related fires. Figures from the Istanbul Fire Department show that cigarettes were to blame for a stunning explosion in house fires over the first three months of 2021. The experience in the UK is that house fires can be prevented by encouraging smokers to switch to vaping.

Lockdown Caused More Smokers

A new report speaks about the terrible impact vape shop closures and increased difficulty in accessing smoking cessation services have had during lockdown. It estimates that over half a million more people are now smoking – despite Action on Smoking and Health previously claiming “record numbers” had quit.

In-store vape clinics with ‘smoking cessation coaches’ planned by Edinburgh firm

Scott Reid, The Scotsman

The firm said it had been inundated with smokers looking to kick the habit since reopening its full estate of more than 150 stores on April 26. It said it had seen a 165 per cent increase in “new to vaping” kit sales in the first week following the relaxation of lockdown measures.

Bosses said they would be launching a new vape clinic concept to create a network of “smoking cessation coaches” across selected stores within its UK retail footprint.

Vaping Policy Targets Minors, Based On Iffy Evidence, And Winds Up Hitting Adults

Jeffrey A. Singer, Cato Institute

Reports in 2019 of e‐​cigarette vaping associated lung injury (EVALI) in teen and adolescent vapers added momentum to the already popular idea of banning flavored vaping cartridges, very popular with young vapers. In January 2020 the Food and Drug Administration ordered all companies to cease manufacturing flavored vaping cartridges.

It has been illegal to sell e‐​cigarettes to anyone under age 18 since 2016. The age was raised to 21 for tobacco and e‐​cigarettes in December 2019.

On this Day…2017

End of an Era

Paul Barnes, Facts Do Matter

Well. This is it. Today is the last day of the transition period. Tomorrow, May 20th, is the day when any non-notified vaping product can no longer be legally sold. Tomorrow is when the new legislation will really start to bite.

What will happen? There isn’t a straightforward answer to that. Let’s look at what we, as a community of consumers have been able to enjoy…

Tobacco Control Kills

Dick Puddlecote

Prior to the EU’s disastrous Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) – overseen by a crook and driven through by vacuous MEPs – e-cigs operated as a consumer product in a bustling and innovative free market. It was not – despite what tobacco control liars say – unregulated considering manufacturers were abiding by 20 or so consumer product regulations. The results were stunning! Latest figures for the UK show that there are now 2.9 million vapers, of which over half of them have quit smoking entirely.

This spectacular success all ends tomorrow.

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